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Law catches up with driver in '01 fatality

Sebastian Barba at the Nassau County Jail in

Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Sebastian Barba at the Nassau County Jail in East Meadow, New York. (Jan. 16, 2013)

The moment Sebastian Barba saw immigration officials board his plane in November as it sat on the tarmac at a Panama airport, he knew a mistake he made on a Westbury street more than a decade before had caught up with him.

"I've always thought that someday it was going to come back," he said of the day he ran over and killed a Westbury woman -- on Feb. 6, 2001. "In life, you always pay."

It...

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